This is one of those moments that I think I'm the last person on Earth to know about it, but there is a very neat tool called SelfSSL that allows you to install a simple certificate on your IIS (on XP) for testing purpose.
It comes with the IIS Resource Kit.
Before I was doing a lot of stupid stuff to test if my ASP.NET app was going to work on the live server. Now I don't need anymore.
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